| アブストラクト | AIMS: Sulfonylureas are recommended as second-line treatment in the management of type 2 diabetes. However, they are still commonly used also as first-line treatment instead of metformin. Given the controversial cardiovascular safety of sulfonylureas, we aimed to determine if their use as first-line treatment is associated with adverse cardiovascular events among patients with newly treated type 2 diabetes compared with metformin. METHODS: We conducted a population-based cohort study of patients with newly treated type 2 diabetes using the UK's Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Initiators of metformin and sulfonylurea monotherapy were matched on high-dimensional propensity score, and Cox proportional hazards models were used to compare the rate of cardiovascular events (myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, cardiovascular death, and all-cause mortality) with sulfonylureas vs metformin. RESULTS: Our cohort included 94 750 patients initiating treatment for type 2 diabetes, 17 612 on a sulfonylurea and 77 138 on metformin. After matching, sulfonylurea monotherapy, compared with metformin monotherapy, was not associated with an increased risk of myocardial infarction (hazard ratio [HR]: 1.04, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.85-1.25) but was associated with increased risks of ischaemic stroke (HR: 1.25, 95% CI: 1.002-1.56), cardiovascular death (HR: 1.25, 95% CI: 1.06-1.47), and all-cause mortality (HR: 1.60, 95% CI: 1.45-1.76). This represents an additional 2.0 ischaemic strokes, 3.5 cardiovascular deaths, and 21.4 all-cause deaths per 1,000 patients per year with sulfonylureas. CONCLUSIONS: Initiating treatment of type 2 diabetes with a sulfonylurea rather than metformin is associated with higher rates of ischaemic stroke, cardiovascular death, and all-cause mortality. |
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| ジャーナル名 | British journal of clinical pharmacology |
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| 投稿日 | 2019/7/6 |
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| 投稿者 | Filion, Kristian B; Douros, Antonios; Azoulay, Laurent; Yin, Hui; Yu, Oriana H; Suissa, Samy |
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| 組織名 | Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.;Center for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute, Jewish General Hospital,;Montreal, Quebec, Canada.;Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill;University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.;Institute of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, Charite - Universitatsmedizin;Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universitat Berlin, Humboldt-Universitat zu;Berlin, Berlin, Germany.;Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany.;Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec,;Canada.;Division of Endocrinology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal,;Quebec, Canada. |
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| Pubmed リンク | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31276600/ |
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